Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Few events have posed as many challenges for retirement and retirement policy as the crisis of the late 2000s. At the end of the last decade, the United States experienced the Great Recession—a combination of unprecedented wealth losses and historically high unemployment increases that marked the...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Latin America's recent development performance calls for a multidisciplinary analytical tool kit. This handbook accordingly adopts a political-economy perspective to understand Latin American economies. This perspective is not new to the region; indeed, this volume consciously follows the approach...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
In a world that is essentially digitizing, some have argued that the idea of the knowledge society holds the greatest promise for Africa’s rapid socio-economic transformation. Impacts of the Knowledge Society on Economic and Social Growth in Africa aims to catalyze thinking and provide relevant information...
Economic Globalisation as Religious War
Tragic Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007
Using a critical theory approach to analyze the globalization of the world economy, this provocative and topical new book presents economic globalization not as a recent development, but rather as a familiar process that has occurred throughout history. Michael McKinley argues that it is ultimately...
Understanding Everyday Governments’ Ways of Job Creation
Ideas and Governments’ Sustainable Strategy to Facilitate Success in Job Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Since the 2008 international economic crisis in the Eurozone countries and North America, much of the debate about a country job creation has been confined to government spending and austerity. Some argue that government spending plays an important role in job creation and economic recovery; while...
Japan in the 21st Century
Environment, Economy, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
The ancient civilization of Japan, with its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, is also closely associated with all that is new and modern. Looking outward, Japan sees what it has become since Hiroshima: the world's second-largest economy, a source of fury and wonder, a power without arms. Looking...
Economics Without Illusions
Debunking the Myths of Modern Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
"Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man." -- Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (1946)
Every day economic claims are used by the media or in conversation to support social and political positions. Those on the left tend to distrust economists, seeing them...
by Philip B. Whyman, Mark J. Baimbridge, Andrew Mullen
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This book seeks to analyse the development of the European Union (EU), which was founded upon the principle of the free movement of capital, goods, services and people in 1957. Its central thesis is that, from a practical and theoretical point of view, such a basis is fundamentally at odds with the...
Global Political Economy
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Praised for its authoritative coverage, Global Political Economy places the study of international political economy (IPE) in its broadest theoretical contextnow updated to cover the continuing global economic crisis and regional relationships and impacts. This text not only helps students understand...
by Eric Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful...
The Coming Economic Implosion of Saudi Arabia
A Behavioral Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is at a crossroads economically, and faces the challenge of a weakening economy that could implode before 2030, the year set as a timetable by the kingdom in its Vision 2030. How it navigates its way out of these economic troubles demands understanding a complex of religious,...
Trading Spaces
Foreign Direct Investment Regulation, 1970–2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book is the first comprehensive study of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization. Political economy FDI research has long focused on how host-country politics influence the supply of FDI, or how firms choose to invest. By contrast, this book focuses on the politics of FDI demand: the sources...
The Foundations of Non-Equilibrium Economics
The principle of circular and cumulative causation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This thought-provoking volume presents essays on the foundations of non-equilibrium economics, i.e. the principle of circular cumulative causation (CCC). This work presents empirical research on how the interplay of technology’s increasing returns to scale, institutions, resources, and economic...
Inequality
An Entangled Political Economy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
‘This book is a thoroughly researched and well written exploration of one of the most divisive topics in modern democratic discourse. Novak brings careful and clear thinking to a topic too often clouded in emotion and guided by moral intuition. ‘
—Peter Boettke, Professor of Economics and Philosophy,...